Chris Kissel is a Research Vice President in IDC's Security & Trust Products group, responsible for cybersecurity technology analysis, emerging trends, and market share reporting. Mr. Kissel’s primary research area is Tier 2 that security operation center (SOC) analytics. The major technology groups within this practice are SOAR, network intelligence and threat analytics (NITA), and XDR. Mr. Kissel also contributes to the IDC SIEM, device and application vulnerability practices. The Tier 2 SOC analytics service affectively covers the processes SOC analysts employ to monitor, detect, remediate, and mitigate threat actors attempting to attack a network within a security and vulnerability management and security analytics paradigm

Previously, Chris was a Senior Analyst at Frost & Sullivan where his main area of coverage was SVM related technologies; vulnerability management (VM), security information and event management (SIEM), network access control (NAC), network security forensics, and incident detection and response (IDR) platforms. Prior to Frost & Sullivan, Mr. Kissel was a Senior Analyst for In-Stat in LTE and Cellular Infrastructure and this practice included base station deployments, spectrum licensing, and cellular backhaul. Mr. Kissel covered PC Chipsets, multimedia applications such as PC-TV tuners and Blu ray DVD.